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Illinois Attorney General Files Lawsuit Against HIV/AIDS Nonprofit
August 20th, 2010
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The Illinois attorney general on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Center for AIDS Prevention for unlawful fundraising and falsifying official documents, ProPublica reports (Weaver, 7/27). Attorney General Lisa Madigan said the state revoked the organization’s registration 20 years ago, but its director, Steve Neely, also known as Morrell Neely, has continued to solicit donations in the state. “The state says the group tried to reregister as a nonprofit using a phony Chicago address, though its boss, … lives in Riverside, Calif.,” Courthouse News Service reports (Freeland, 7/27). “If the suit is successful, Illinois could seize money illegally raised there, bar Neely and others involved with the center from future charitable work in the state, freeze their assets, force them to pay back donations they may have ‘misused and/or wasted’ with interest, and attempt to shut the group down for good by revoking its corporate status,” ProPublica reports (7/27).
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Signs Budget That Cuts $52M From HIV/AIDS Programs
August 19th, 2010
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) on Tuesday signed a state budget in which he made $489 million in line-item veto cuts that “will affect child welfare and children’s health care, the elderly, state parks and AIDS treatment and prevention, going beyond the dramatic cuts that were part of the deal Schwarzenegger negotiated with legislative leaders,” the Los Angeles Times reports (Rothfeld/Goldmacher, 7/28). “Services for people with AIDS, which had previously been spared by the Legislature, were reduced by $52 million by Schwarzenegger on Tuesday. That cut will mean no state spending on HIV/AIDS prevention, testing, education or housing services for people with the disease. The state will continue paying for AIDS medications and for tracking the epidemic,” the San Francisco Chronicle reports (Buchanan, 7/29).
Schwarzenegger said, “The legislators have given me a budget with a $156 million negative reserve, so now I had to go in over this weekend and work with my team and make additional cuts.” He added, “That’s ugly, when already we have cut so much, and then we had to make additional cuts” (Steinhauer, New York Times, 7/28). Mark Cloutier, executive director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, said of the cuts to HIV/AIDS programs, “This means there are going to be more people who are HIV-positive who are unwittingly infecting others” (Buchanan, 7/29).
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Efforts Underway In Namibia To Treat Pediatric HIV
August 19th, 2010
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Inter Press Service examines how efforts underway in Namibia have helped to decrease the number of infants born with HIV while also increasing the number of HIV-positive infants on life-saving antiretrovirals (ARVs). According to the news service, since the launch of an early infant detection (EID) program in 2006, “the number of HIV-infected newborns has dropped from 13 percent to two percent in Namibia, according to the national Ministry of Health” — figures that “stand in sharp contrast with data from other African countries where many pregnant women are not diagnosed in time to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus and only a few HIV-positive infants receive ARVs.”
Of the 20,000 children living with HIV in Namibia, “7,622 children are receiving ARV treatment,” according to Angela Mushavi, who is PMTCT coordinator of the CDC, a major donor for Namibia’s EID-programme. “Namibia’s progress in paediatric HIV has been particularly impressive, in light of the challenges facing its health care system,” the news service writes.
The article highlights how the dry-blood sampling used for EID testing can be completed by parents and preserved during week-long shipments to laboratories and additional ways that the government has worked to make ARV treatments easier for infants and their caregivers (Van Den Bosch, 7/28).
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HIV/AIDS Education Project Targeting Pennsylvania Black Women Examined
August 19th, 2010
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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette profiled the Girlfriends Project, a domestic violence and HIV/AIDS education program implemented by the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force that targets at-risk black women in three Allegheny County, Pa., cities. Blacks “comprise just 7 percent of the total population in southwestern Pennsylvania but 41 percent of those living with HIV/AIDS, according to Allegheny County Health Department statistics provided by the task force,” the Post-Gazette reports. “The Girlfriends Project was designed for Braddock, Clairton and Duquesne “because we knew nobody was doing outreach there,” project coordinator, Lisa Dukes, said. As part of the project, Dukes hosts Tupperware party-style gatherings in homes of residents where she provides HIV testing and education, sexual health information, safe sex products and cash gift cards. The project is an outgrowth of the CDC’s prevention program Sisters Informing Sisters About Topics on AIDS, or SISTA, and has been so successful that CDC “has asked the task force to introduce it at the CDC’s 2009 National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta Aug. 23,” the article states (Smith, 7/29).
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Also In Global Health News: Uganda Male Circumcision; Malaria Vaccine; Potential Global Fund Grant In Cambodia; PMTCT Of HIV In Botswana
August 18th, 2010
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Cost Of Male Circumcision Prevents Wider Use In Uganda, Analysis Shows
The cost of male circumcision is preventing it from being used more widely adopted in Uganda as a way to help prevent men from contracting HIV, according to analysis of several districts in the country conducted by Makerere University School of Public Health researchers and the Ministry of Health with technical support from Family Health International, the Daily Monitor reports. Most household respondents thought medical male circumcision should be either free or government-subsidized or at a cost of about $2.40 (Kirunda, 7/29).
Crucell Partners With PATH, USAID To Speed Development Of Malaria Vaccine
The biotechnology company Crucell said it has entered into the collaboration with the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) and the USAID Malaria Vaccine Development (MVDP) Program that will speed up development of a malaria vaccine, Reuters reports. “Via funding from the MVDP, both Crucell and MVI will conduct studies to determine the effectiveness of Crucell’s vaccine against the malaria parasite. Crucell did not disclose any financial details,” the news service writes (Gray-Block, 7/29).
Cambodia Submits $145M Global Fund Proposal To Reduce HIV/AIDS
Cambodia has submitted a $145 million proposal to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria that aims to reduce the prevalence of HIV/AIDS over a five-year period, Mean Chhivun, director of the National Centre for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STD, said on Tuesday, the Phnom Penh Post reports. “‘Now we are waiting for an outcome,’ he said, adding that the government expected to hear a decision on the proposal by September,” the newspaper writes (Rith, 7/29).
Botswana Has Lowest Mother-To-Child HIV Transmission Rate In Africa, Study Says
Botswana has the lowest rate of mother-to-child HIV transmission for a breastfeeding population in Africa, according to a study by the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute, Mmegi Online reports. “The Mmabana Study, as the programme is called, also revealed that Maternal Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) from early in the third trimester of pregnancy through six months of breastfeeding is a safe and effective strategy for preventing mother-to-child-transmission of HIV/AIDS while allowing for the benefits of breastfeeding,” Mmegi Online writes (Baputaki, 7/28).
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Senate Fiscal Year 2010 Spending Bill Excludes Abstinence-Only Education Funding, Needle Exchange Language
August 18th, 2010
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The Senate Appropriations Labor, HHS, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee on Tuesday approved by voice vote its fiscal year 2010 spending bill draft, which excludes funding for abstinence-only sex education programs and, unlike the House bill, does not include language lifting the ban on the use of federal funding for needle exchange programs, CQ Today reports. According to the article, Committee Chair Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) “confirmed that the bill will not contain funding for abstinence-only education programs when the full committee marks it up on Thursday. Instead, the draft will contain funding for more comprehensive sex education, which can include teaching abstinence.” Harkin also said that the Senate bill does not contain language lifting the ban on the needle exchange funding because that is “a matter for conference” (Wolfe, 7/28).
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Columnist Discusses HIV/AIDS Among Blacks In Washington, D.C.
August 18th, 2010
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Columnist George Curry on Tuesday in the Hudson Valley Press discussed how HIV/AIDS is impacting the black community, particularly in Washington, D.C. The piece includes comments from Phill Wilson, CEO of the Black AIDS Institute and C. Virginia Fields, president and CEO of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, who discuss statistics and recommendations to address HIV/AIDS among the black community, including routine HIV testing. Curry writes, “If C. Virginia Fields and other activists get their wish and have [HIV] testing incorporated into routine health testing, that will place a heavier burden on crowded counseling and treatment facilities. But it’s not an insurmountable burden. The question is: Do we have the national will to take on this epidemic?” (7/29).
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